Mattress.



A. HARTMAN MATTRESS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 29.1915.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

Mas-m BE] lino in lat-I nah-inm-Han'mmma citizei ofithe Initec States. anda resident fiNew Yer the, 'cou n'l; and State of sin \iattresses, of which a speeifioation. i T1 51 nrelates tolnew and useful impro mattresses.

Tl yin tentioni is to providettress of simple connrable. which. can be v drawings in which 1 is a. perspective ne i and improved K ,e=fl;ip. adjnst ed at an on to; the bo y ojfflthe mat-tress. Fig.

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anne and eanwbestutfed ,Imossh tton or any well te ialt for mattresses. At split horizontally, g6; to the other to o bolsters-2, 2, which are sod t the mattress. The

r oute r covering layers and ss prefe ably consist ng ot ly used forumaking no ssfand the corresponding tl1 Sii(1/$i5 are. made in ith the Corresponding holrs ers. whe the I my improved mattress a g a? ea ans anyfordinarymati tress'andci fl utothe sameuses.

A: niade of wood! has i two is Tliioh are hinged to One of these sees aine section Aseii iihim: HARTMAN, or: New Y iSpeeifiea tion ofyLetters Patent,

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d certain new and indicate like parts in wfofthe mattress, adjusted in 1 hasit body constructed in iieoe each, over the one, N. Y.

andiupon the frame section the lordinary stuiiing' is vplated and covered by the 'coiiering; layers 3: and 4 and; their tnifited; in" the usual manner. Each flap is equal in thioki nessto one half of the thickness of'the main; body 1' and the frame sections canrest flat on eachvother with nothing between1 them but the; two layers of ticii'iijlg 'w hioh ticking istaclced to thei PHITIB sections. About at the middle of" one frame seetibnffi a metal rod 1'0 is mounted to turn axially and may tends torthe sides Where it terininatesvin two handles lhpreferably inad'e by bending the Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

Agplieation tumm 29, 1915, Seria1No.31,132.

ends of the rod at right angles. The rod 1 0b is preferably located adjacent'to the edge of a erosspiece m of the frame Fronisaid rod two struts 13 extend which can be engagedi with the teeth of two racks M on the side pieces of the frame. 7. By engaging the ends of the struts with the teeth "of the racks M this upper flap can be held at any desired inelinationmto the lower horizontal flap. A like adjnstmen t of the upper flap can be obtained when the mattress is reyersed. i

The side members of the frame section 6 on which the rod is mounted are provided Withgrooves 15 into which the struts: 13" can passyso asto permit of folding one flap into closeeontact with the other, so that the mattress, will be no thicker at the flaps or bolsters than at any other partofthe' body,

when the flaps are folded" down. i

\{My mattress is very light andcheap and the person lying on the niattress never feels the wood as'it is contained within the inattress and the flaps or bolsters are as soft as the body of thejinattress.

Having described myinycmtion what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is z a The combination with a 'mattressbody, splitihorizontally at one end, from side to or holster'syof a, frame composed of two rectangular sections hinged to each other. attheir inner ends, to

more toward and from each other. at the ends opposite the hinges. wh ch frame seetions-are both of the same width, sothat the side pieces of the upper frame section 'vhen lowered rest exactly on the side pieces of the lower "frame section. a covering of bed tickimp: on the adjacent sides of the frames, stuflin'g on the outsides of the frame sections, a covering layer oit'tieking for the bolsters,

which is made in one piece with the coveringof the corresponding face of the mattress, a rod mounted to turn axially on the upper frame section, struts projecting from said rod in line with the side pieces of the lower frame section, handles formed on the projecting ends of said rod, longitudinal grooves formed in the side pieces of the upper frame section, into which grooves the struts can be folded so as not to project beyond the inner surfaces of the frame sections, and racks set into the upper surfaces of the side pieces of the lower frarne section adapted to be engaged by the struts, substantially as set forth, whereby the mattress is reversible and 15 either bolster may be elevated.

.Signed at New York city, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York this 28th day of May,

' ABRAHAM HARTMAN. Witnesses:

S. EARL Lnown, OSCAR F. GUNZ. 

